Historical Events In October - 15

1923  NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 on October - 15.   

1923  On October - 15 italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)   

1924  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on this day in history.   

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on October - 15.   

1925  On this day in history pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series   

1925  On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms on October - 15.   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on this day in history.   

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on October - 15.   

1932  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight on October - 15.   

1933  On October - 15 philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0   

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.   

1935  On October - 15 nHL's St Louis Eagles fold   

1937  Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published on October - 15.   

1937  On this day in history james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70   

1938  Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC on October - 15.   

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed   

1941  On this day in history jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

1941  On this day in history 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe   

1942  German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die on this day in history.   

1942  On October - 15 dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed   

1944  The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary on October - 15.   

1944  On October - 15 philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau   

1945  On October - 15 french statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two.   

1945  On October - 15 pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed   

1945  On this day in history baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)   

1945  Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison   

1946  Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) on October - 15.   

1946  On October - 15 hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison   

1948  On this day in history first women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.   

1948  China's Red army occupies Chinchov on October - 15.   

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1471  On this day in history birth of konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)   

1542  On this day in history birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)   

1550  On this day in history birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange   

1608  On this day in history birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

1674  On October - 15 birth of robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)   

1686  Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758) was born on October - 15.   

1701  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771) was born on October - 15.   

1711  Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741) was born on October - 15.   

0412  On October - 15 death of theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria   

0892  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 15.   

0898  On October - 15 death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  Death of Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba on October - 15.   

1002  On October - 15 death of otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)   

1080  Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies on October - 15.   

1268  Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies on this day in history.   

1271  On this day in history hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies